GNU bug report logs - #13460
Issue to change dictionary when using hunspell on emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jochen Schmitt <Jochen <at> herr-schmitt.de>

Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jochen <at> herr-schmitt.de
Subject: bug#13460: Issue to change dictionary when using hunspell on emacs
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:51:13 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Jochen Schmitt <Jochen <at> herr-schmitt.de>,  13460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:23:23 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > You need to install the English dictionary for Hunspell.  I suspect
> > that its name will be en_US (or maybe en_GB), not "english".
> 
> M-x ispell-change-dictionary doesn't accept "en_US" as input.
> It wants something like "english" (coming from
> ispell-dictionary-base-alist), which as you say is wrong.

Then one needs to customize ispell-local-dictionary-alist to include
the setting for en_US.  Here's what I have there:

     '("en_US"
	"[[:alpha:]]"
	"[^[:alpha:]]"
	"[']" nil ("-r") nil utf-8)

The OP may wish to omit the -r switch, it's not a necessity.

Also, be sure to look at en_US.aff and match the character set it
mentions there with the "utf-8" part above.
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